* Mark Wielaard:
BTW. Can Obsoletes ever be removed? We have an Obsoletes: libelf <= 0.8.2-2 on elfutils-libelf since the original cvsdist import of 2004 because there used to be a different libelf implementation (with a dead upstream these days). Can I remove that? Or is it better to keep it "just in case"?
My rule of thumb is that if it's not possible to directly upgrade from the last release which still had the package, it's okay to remove the Obsoletes:. It's derived from first principles (the intermediate update step will remove the package); I don't know if it's an official guideline.
Thanks, Florian